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Howard Shore is a Canadian composer, conductor and orchestrator noted for his film scores. [1]He has composed the scores for over 80 films, most notably the scores for The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit film trilogies.
Shore wrote the music for Canadian magician Doug Henning's magic musical Spellbound in 1974 and, from 1975 to 1980, he was the musical director for Michaels' influential late-night NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live, [11] appearing in many musical sketches, including Howard Shore and His All-Nurse Band, and dressed as a beekeeper for a ...
Howard Shore, composer of The Lord of the Rings film score. The Canadian composer and conductor Howard Shore composed, orchestrated, conducted and produced the film trilogy's music. [6] The filmmakers had considered the American composer James Horner [7] and the Polish composer Wojciech Kilar for the role. [8]
The original score to the 2011 Martin Scorsese-directed historical drama film Hugo featured music composed by Scorsese's norm collaborator Howard Shore.It was released by his own label Howe Records on November 15, 2011 under the title Hugo (Original Score) and has 21 tracks from the selections of his score running for nearly an-hour, unlike the initial score which lasted for one-hour and ...
Following the style of his music for The Lord of the Rings film series, Howard Shore constructed the score for The Hobbit using many strong recognisable musical themes. The musicologist Doug Adams described these as "an encyclopedic network of leitmotifs: dozens of themes that represented cultures, characters, objects, and dramatic concepts in Middle-earth."
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack was released on 20 November 2001. It was composed, orchestrated, and conducted by Howard Shore, and performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, the London Voices, London Oratory School Schola choir and multiple featured instrumental and vocal soloists.
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is the soundtrack for the 2003 epic fantasy adventure film of the same name. The score was composed, orchestrated, and conducted by Howard Shore, and performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Voices, and the London Oratory School Schola. [1]